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Almost 3 years ago, on July 1, 2023 the much anticipated National Anti-Corruption Commission began its operations.
Promised to the Australian public by Anthony Albanese as a corruption commission "with teeth", the NACC also took over the operations of the previous federal integrity body, the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI).
When the NACC took over, they also shifted headquarters approx 1.1 kms away.
But even though it cost taxpayers $789,913 to shift out, the shiny new NACC was ready for operation.
They were ready and raring to go.
Promised to the Australian public by Anthony Albanese as a corruption commission "with teeth", the NACC also took over the operations of the previous federal integrity body, the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI).
When the NACC took over, they also shifted headquarters approx 1.1 kms away.
But even though it cost taxpayers $789,913 to shift out, the shiny new NACC was ready for operation.
They were ready and raring to go.
But let's not forget that besides the head office in Canberra, the NACC also set up offices in Brisbane (where for some reason the CEO is based), Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
And you'll be thrilled to know the NACC's Melbourne offices, which were set up to provide office space for the one Melbourne based Deputy Commissioner, were brought up to scratch at a cost to taxpayers of
~$1.3 million
Or $1,271,520 to be precise
And you'll be thrilled to know the NACC's Melbourne offices, which were set up to provide office space for the one Melbourne based Deputy Commissioner, were brought up to scratch at a cost to taxpayers of
~$1.3 million
Or $1,271,520 to be precise
But it gets better.
Now don't forget, the NACC has in its almost 3 years of operation, managed to obtain 1 conviction it its own right.
But in case you're wondering what people are doing there, the NACC does have a Commissioner (the recently resigned Paul Brereton) and 3 Deputy Commissioners and a CEO.
The NACC has an approx staff of 220, but those 5 individuals at the top take in a combined salary package of just over $3.5 million a year.
In the 3 years of its operations, those 5 individual's salary packages have cost the taxpayers $10.6 million, or $10,671,900 to be precise.
1 conviction.
Zero public hearings.
.
Now don't forget, the NACC has in its almost 3 years of operation, managed to obtain 1 conviction it its own right.
But in case you're wondering what people are doing there, the NACC does have a Commissioner (the recently resigned Paul Brereton) and 3 Deputy Commissioners and a CEO.
The NACC has an approx staff of 220, but those 5 individuals at the top take in a combined salary package of just over $3.5 million a year.
In the 3 years of its operations, those 5 individual's salary packages have cost the taxpayers $10.6 million, or $10,671,900 to be precise.
1 conviction.
Zero public hearings.
.
The new DOJ investigation of E. Jean Carroll, according to CNN, stems from her testifying at her 2022 deposition that her lawyers were handling her case on contingency and that no one else was funding her case. But correspondence filed in the first-tried Carroll case reflects that it was always more complicated. 1/
In April 2023, as they were preparing for trial, Carroll’s counsel informed Trump’s team that E. Jean recalled that she had learned that a non-profit was helping defray the costs associated with her suit, costs that her lawyers assumed when they took the case on contingency. 2/
By the next day, having spoken with Trump’s counsel, Carroll’s lawyers wrote again to clarify the Trump side’s “misunderstanding of the facts.” 3/
THE AIRLINE LOST MY BAG FOR 72 HOURS.
THEY HANDED ME A $50 “COURTESY” VOUCHER AT THE BAGGAGE DESK AND SMILED LIKE THEY’D DONE ME A FAVOR.
I KEPT THE VOUCHER.
THEN I OPENED MY LAPTOP AND USED A 1999 INTERNATIONAL TREATY THEY NEVER MENTION AT CHECK-IN.
TOTAL RECOVERED: $1,650.
HERE ARE THE 3 LEGAL WEAPONS MOST PASSENGERS NEVER KNOW THEY HAVE:
THEY HANDED ME A $50 “COURTESY” VOUCHER AT THE BAGGAGE DESK AND SMILED LIKE THEY’D DONE ME A FAVOR.
I KEPT THE VOUCHER.
THEN I OPENED MY LAPTOP AND USED A 1999 INTERNATIONAL TREATY THEY NEVER MENTION AT CHECK-IN.
TOTAL RECOVERED: $1,650.
HERE ARE THE 3 LEGAL WEAPONS MOST PASSENGERS NEVER KNOW THEY HAVE:
The Psychology
Why $50?
Because it is calibrated to feel generous enough that you sign the back,where the fine print says “acceptance of goodwill, full and final settlement.”
That voucher is not a refund. It is a liability contract disguised as kindness.
Never sign it. Never spend it. Treat it like a parking ticket from someone who hit your car.
Why $50?
Because it is calibrated to feel generous enough that you sign the back,where the fine print says “acceptance of goodwill, full and final settlement.”
That voucher is not a refund. It is a liability contract disguised as kindness.
Never sign it. Never spend it. Treat it like a parking ticket from someone who hit your car.
Weapon 1: The Montreal Convention
There is a treaty called the Montreal Convention. Airlines cannot opt out. It is baked into your ticket whether they mention it or not.
For checked baggage delays on international flights, they are strictly liable up to 1,131 Special Drawing Rights,about $1,500 USD.
The key word is *delay*, not loss.
A 72-hour delay means you can claim emergency purchases: clothes, toiletries, phone chargers, even a suit for your meeting. “Reasonable necessity” is the legal standard, not “what the airline feels like.”
There is a treaty called the Montreal Convention. Airlines cannot opt out. It is baked into your ticket whether they mention it or not.
For checked baggage delays on international flights, they are strictly liable up to 1,131 Special Drawing Rights,about $1,500 USD.
The key word is *delay*, not loss.
A 72-hour delay means you can claim emergency purchases: clothes, toiletries, phone chargers, even a suit for your meeting. “Reasonable necessity” is the legal standard, not “what the airline feels like.”
The person in the clip is U.S. Navy Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
He is the one testifying, responding to a question about his experience with Iran and noting that in the roughly 30 months before Operation Epic Fury
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youtube.com/shorts/h06DhIh…
He is the one testifying, responding to a question about his experience with Iran and noting that in the roughly 30 months before Operation Epic Fury
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youtube.com/shorts/h06DhIh…
(the U.S.-led military operation against Iran that began on February 28, 2026), Iran and its proxies (in Iraq, Syria, and the Houthis) attacked U.S. service members and diplomats about 350 times—roughly every third day.
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The testimony comes from a Senate hearing in mid-May 2026 (around May 14–15), where Adm. Cooper discussed CENTCOM operations, force posture, and the outcomes of Operation Epic Fury.
The YouTube Short itself was uploaded on May 26, 2026 (by the channel "Jeff Square").
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The YouTube Short itself was uploaded on May 26, 2026 (by the channel "Jeff Square").
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A few days ago, I had the Compaq laptop fleet out! Recently, I had "redone" my DOS/Win3.11 setup. I wanted to copy this new setup to all of my LTE 5000 laptops, but didn't want to completely reload them! Let's talk about what I did! Time for a quick 🧵
So, first question, why redo the setup? Recently, I loaded an XTIDE patch on my Compaq LTE 5400 to allow large drive support. I ended up having to really optimize conventional memory. I also simplified the boot process to always load network drivers:
Alright, great! So, what's a good optimal way to "patch" the existing laptops with the old setup? How about a batch file on a floppy disk? Also, I discovered a few things about the new setup I wanted to fix too in the process. Let's handle both cases!
16-PART 🧵SERIES
Not the headlines. Not the cable news panels. Not the crypto Twitter hype merchants.
Nobody is connecting all the dots the supply shock, the regulatory revolution, the private money infrastructure being built in plain sight, the payment rails cracking open under executive order, and the banking lobby that spent three years fighting crypto making a full, coordinated 30-day flip.
This isn't a bull market.
This isn't a cycle.
This is a financial regime change and it is being written right now, in real time, in documents and filings and executive orders that most people will never read.
This is your wake-up call. Read every word.
Not the headlines. Not the cable news panels. Not the crypto Twitter hype merchants.
Nobody is connecting all the dots the supply shock, the regulatory revolution, the private money infrastructure being built in plain sight, the payment rails cracking open under executive order, and the banking lobby that spent three years fighting crypto making a full, coordinated 30-day flip.
This isn't a bull market.
This isn't a cycle.
This is a financial regime change and it is being written right now, in real time, in documents and filings and executive orders that most people will never read.
This is your wake-up call. Read every word.
Public companies now hold 5.47% of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist and the supply shock everyone keeps predicting has quietly, structurally, already begun.
Bitwise published its Q1 2026 Corporate Bitcoin Adoption Report.
The numbers are staggering in their implications 198 public companies now hold approximately 1.245 million Bitcoin on their balance sheets worth roughly $77 billion.
They added 50,351 BTC in Q1 alone, the highest quarterly accumulation ever recorded.
And they did it at the fastest pace in history during a quarter where Bitcoin's price actually fell.
Let that sink in. They didn't buy the dip opportunistically. They bought because they had to. Because their mandate is to accumulate. Because the structural logic of what they're doing doesn't depend on price.
Bitwise published its Q1 2026 Corporate Bitcoin Adoption Report.
The numbers are staggering in their implications 198 public companies now hold approximately 1.245 million Bitcoin on their balance sheets worth roughly $77 billion.
They added 50,351 BTC in Q1 alone, the highest quarterly accumulation ever recorded.
And they did it at the fastest pace in history during a quarter where Bitcoin's price actually fell.
Let that sink in. They didn't buy the dip opportunistically. They bought because they had to. Because their mandate is to accumulate. Because the structural logic of what they're doing doesn't depend on price.
Here is the structural part most people miss entirely
Miners are natural sellers.
Treasury companies are forced buyers.
Those two opposite forces now define the flow of Bitcoin itself.
The float is shrinking. The buyers are institutionalized.
The mathematics of scarcity that Satoshi embedded in the protocol is now colliding with corporate America's balance sheet management.
But the connections run deeper than balance sheets.
Twenty One Capital was launched through a Cantor Fitzgerald SPAC with Tether, SoftBank, and Bitfinex as co-founders. Cantor Fitzgerald was founded by Howard Lutnick, now the United States Secretary of Commerce. Cantor is run today by his son Brandon Lutnick, who chairs the SPAC that took Twenty One public. Cantor owns 5% of Tether and serves as the primary custodian for Tether's Treasury bills backing approximately $134 billion in stablecoin reserves circulating in the global financial system.
Miners are natural sellers.
Treasury companies are forced buyers.
Those two opposite forces now define the flow of Bitcoin itself.
The float is shrinking. The buyers are institutionalized.
The mathematics of scarcity that Satoshi embedded in the protocol is now colliding with corporate America's balance sheet management.
But the connections run deeper than balance sheets.
Twenty One Capital was launched through a Cantor Fitzgerald SPAC with Tether, SoftBank, and Bitfinex as co-founders. Cantor Fitzgerald was founded by Howard Lutnick, now the United States Secretary of Commerce. Cantor is run today by his son Brandon Lutnick, who chairs the SPAC that took Twenty One public. Cantor owns 5% of Tether and serves as the primary custodian for Tether's Treasury bills backing approximately $134 billion in stablecoin reserves circulating in the global financial system.
The tri-valley was mentioned in the book as a place where whites would flee away from Asian educational norms. Now it is becoming overwhelmingly Asian just like the South Bay. (Also note that only 14% of CA schools kids are white)
Indians are most likely to live in newer houses:
Article about how rich tri-valley suburbs have become a mini India. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲 - 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘑𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦! (1975)
This text, newly translated and published by Endnotes last year, contains both the brilliance of Jacques Camatte and some concepts, in embryo, that would lead to the decay of his thought.
This text, newly translated and published by Endnotes last year, contains both the brilliance of Jacques Camatte and some concepts, in embryo, that would lead to the decay of his thought.
Camatte traces the concepts of formal and real domination, the restructuring of capital in the 70s, and the collapse of the proletariat's power qua proletariat in its conflictual relation to capital. The article, by turns brilliant and maddening, is worth close study.
Jacques Camatte wrote to Bordiga as a young man, and eventually became a militant of the International Communist Party (ICP), an inheritor of the legacy of the factory struggles in Italy in 1919 and of battle against Stalinist degeneration.
3 weeks ago we open-sourced HALO
this led to talking with dozens of teams running agents at scale
we realized the current agent monitoring tools aren't built for the future that we so clearly see ahead of us
today we’re releasing native OpenTelemetry-compatible agent tracing on @inference_net, powered by the same open-source core behind HALO
this led to talking with dozens of teams running agents at scale
we realized the current agent monitoring tools aren't built for the future that we so clearly see ahead of us
today we’re releasing native OpenTelemetry-compatible agent tracing on @inference_net, powered by the same open-source core behind HALO
Traces are the entry point into building software that can fix / improve itself.
Every team building agents, whether as a product or for internal use, should have some sort of tracing
Traces are not expensive to store or query, but current tracing tools cost $$$$$ per year
Every team building agents, whether as a product or for internal use, should have some sort of tracing
Traces are not expensive to store or query, but current tracing tools cost $$$$$ per year
We think tracing should be cheap enough to use with any agent without spending a fortune.
Integrate tracing into your agent in the next 30 days, and we’ll give you 1 million traces for free
Get started ->
If you’re in SF, I will personally come to your office & walk you through, just shoot me a DM.docs.inference.net/get-started/ca…
Integrate tracing into your agent in the next 30 days, and we’ll give you 1 million traces for free
Get started ->
If you’re in SF, I will personally come to your office & walk you through, just shoot me a DM.docs.inference.net/get-started/ca…
Stealing from the future 101. This 101 will attempt to describe facts. It is not political except to say that the outcome was entirely bipartisan. It spans 46 years of a wide variety of political alignments.
The big takeaway is every single member of society has benefitted
The big takeaway is every single member of society has benefitted
What has happened but the those who are older have benefited the most due to compounded benefits of what has happened.
What has happened is over the last 46 years the U.S. national debt has grown at an annualized pace of 8.6% from roughly 1tn to 39tn. During the same time
What has happened is over the last 46 years the U.S. national debt has grown at an annualized pace of 8.6% from roughly 1tn to 39tn. During the same time
Nominal GDP has grown by 5.5% annualized. The government share of GDP has been roughly 18% of the economy. As government has grown substantially faster than the overall economy the growth of government deficit spending has increased nominal GDP by roughly 60bp per year.
Overslept Fajr? Don’t panic - the Sunnah prayer isn’t lost.
Here’s the proof:
Here’s the proof:
Islam doesn’t punish you for what you didn’t intend.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“There is no negligence in missing prayer unintentionally through sleep. Negligence is only while awake. If one of you forgets a prayer or sleeps through it, let him pray it when he remembers.
(Tirmidhi)
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“There is no negligence in missing prayer unintentionally through sleep. Negligence is only while awake. If one of you forgets a prayer or sleeps through it, let him pray it when he remembers.
(Tirmidhi)
And yes - that includes the Sunnah of Fajr.
The Prophet ﷺ and the companions once overslept on a journey.
When they woke up, he ﷺ: prayed the Sunnah of Fajr first, then the Fard.
(Sahih Muslim 681)
The Prophet ﷺ and the companions once overslept on a journey.
When they woke up, he ﷺ: prayed the Sunnah of Fajr first, then the Fard.
(Sahih Muslim 681)
I just got banned from Queens Park and fined $60 for reminding the Ontario government they don’t have jurisdiction to break Canon Laws of Acadia. I told them Jesus didn’t rape women and that the New England Company didn’t value the lives of Acadian, Indigenous, Francophone or Non Protestant people. I asked them to change that. #cdnpoli #onpoli @Pontiff_XIV_ @VaticanNews @fordnation @CFifeKW @MaritStiles @MikeSchreiner @LGOntario @GGCanada @MarkJCarney @ElizabethMay @avilewis @yfblanchet @PierrePoilievre
I went in good faith to support Lydia’s law to expedite rape hearings and to give more support for survivors. The reading pushed back for 3 hours. The justice minister wasn’t even there. I learned Queen’s Park burned down 3 times. They heating was to blame. The last wing to catch fire was replaced with Italian marble and tile all hand done. Pricy rebuild. They could have simply used marble from Tweed ON.
My composure broke when they spoke of abuse in Long Term care first topic. My dad experienced that. I did an inquiry and judicial review and by the time it was done I was told the statute of limitations passed to sue. The institution had a list of issues. Doug Ford gave Bill Delaine the contracts jobs to build more Long Term Care homes. He was managing my dad’s retirement home. My view it is like Eugenics.
